Texas A&M University’s new policy banning classroom advocacy for race and gender ideology has sparked controversy after a ...
Martin Peterson has taught philosophy at Texas A&M University for more than a decade, but now the school has barred him from exposing students to a foundational thinker ...
Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What did shock him was that the ban included readings from Plato’s “Symposium.” ...
In the latest move in Texas' campaign to bar gender and race ideology from education, an intro-level philosophy course at Texas A&M University has had sections of Plato's writings removed.
The Greek philosopher's writing explores themes of sexuality and gender, making it susceptible to the university's new rules ...
Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...
It's troubling to think that some of the courses that changed my perspective in college would be censored in a modern ...
There’s a sense of triumphalism in the headlines. “Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his ‘gender ideology,’” one caption at ...
One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.